Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (PhD, Michigan, 1997) is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia, particularly in the ways in which the Achaemenid Empire affected local social structures and in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures. Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (her first book) examines such issues from the vantage of the Lydian capital, while her third book, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (Cambridge University Press, 2013) considers all of Anatolia. Her second book is a diachronic excavation monograph, Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society (2005). She is currently studying the seal impressions on the Aramaic tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive (dating ca.500 BCE), and the cremation burials from Gordion. She has worked at Sardis, Gordion, and Kerkenes Dag in Turkey, as well as at sites elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Professor Dusinberre teaches primarily Greek and Near Eastern archaeology. She has been awarded six University of Colorado teaching awards, the Chancellor's Faculty Recognition Award, and the Faculty Graduate Advisor Award.
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Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Sardis in the Achaemenid empire
2. Textual sources and the effects of empire
3. The urban structure of Achaemenid Sardis: monuments and meaning
4. The urban structure of Achaemenid Sardis: sculpture and society
5. Inscriptions: Sardians in their own words
6. Mortuary evidence: dead and living societies
7. Personal signifiers: Sealstones
8. Achaemenid bowls: ceramic assemblages and the non-elite
9. Conclusion: Imperialism and Achaemenid Sardis
Appendices
References
Index.
